‘ Most of the “reciprocal” tariffs are about 1/2 what they charge us, but the HBM (Has Been Media) tries to push this as Trump being incredibly mean because the premise of all of their stories is “Let’s hate Trump”.’
That’s not how it was calculated.
‘ The tariffs were calculated using a formula that takes how much a given country sells to the U.S. (exports), subtracts how much that country buys from the U.S. (imports) to calculate the trade deficit, and then divides the trade deficit by that country’s exports to the U.S.’
The nerd in me transferred all of those numbers into Excel, threw out the ones that charge us only 10%, then averaged the rest. It comes out that we're going to charge 50.49% of what they charge us.